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Additional themes touched upon in the meeting include dust and emission control, truck routes and worker parking, and construction debris...
...first sign that we are entering a dead zone is the carcass of a camel, gathering flies and red dust. Since camels can go for three weeks without water, according to local farmers, the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones is an ominous sight. We enter a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of offering the usual smiles and waves, the children duck away. The reason for the villagers' fear becomes evident a few minutes later: nine turbaned men on horseback, members of the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, appear with rifles over their shoulders. We are gone...
...elevator on 9/11. An immigrant family treasures an old photo of a man holding a gun. While these images may seem purely dark, the writers who created them explained they are the source of humor as well as melacholy in a Harvard panel entitled “Dreams, Sex, Dust: Three Vietnamese American Writers.” Novelist Gish Jen ’77 moderated the April 12 event together with Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors. Essayist Andrew Lam, performance artist Lan Tran, and poet Truong Tran all presented readings...
Hungry Quincy House residents were forced to seek sustenance in neighboring Houses Friday as a result of a renovation glitch that filled their own dining hall with dust. The dining hall first shut down at breakfast time on Friday and remained closed until Saturday morning. Crista Martin, director for marketing and communications at Harvard University Dining Services, said the eating facility was closed because of safety concerns. “Dust got into the dining area and, as a safety precaution, they closed down the dining hall until they could clean it up,” Martin said. The dust...
MAGNUM P.I.'S FERRARI 308 AND THE A-TEAM'S GMC VAN Their glory days as mustache-delivery system and crack-commando conveyance behind them, these '80s alpha sleds now gather dust on the Universal Studios back lot, posing for tourist photos...